As I have been besieged by the media, including private TV production companies that value sensation above any vestige of historical accuracy, it has become clear that Brown's book has perverted not only any proper sense of who Leonardo was and what he did, but also proper conceptions of history and fiction.
Second, there is the communitarian view, advanced by philosophers like Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor, that all proper conceptions of the self are dependent on social matrices.
According to Boyd (1999a, 1999b), Griffiths (1999), Wilson (1999), Millikan (1999), and Wilson et al. (forthcoming), species are natural kinds on a proper conception of natural kinds.
A proper conception of God entails that we depend on God in every way possible, not just ontologically but cognitively as well.
Descartes attempts to distinguish his "proper" conception of motion, as a change of the "neighborhood" of contiguous bodies, from the common or "vulgar" conception of motion, which is change of internal place (Pr II 10 15, 24 28).
It is by no means settled as to how we should think of the relationship between arithmetic and logic, since logicians have not yet come to agreement about the proper conception of logic.
Evans is less clear, however, that a proper conception of the day is necessary for formation (as opposed to retention) of a temporally indexical belief, which is what Perry's second objection denies.
All debates over the proper conception of justice, i.e., over who is due what, can be understood as controversies over the question of which cases are equal and which unequal (Aristotle, Politics, 1282b 22).
One guy will get up, at a conference like this, and say conservatism, in its proper conception, is 331/3percentnthisis, 331/3percentnthatat, 331/3percentnthehe other thing.
On our analysis, such a scheme seems to be based on a proper conception of preconception beneficence.
So the proper and adequate conception of any body or mind necessarily involves the concept or knowledge of God.
